My research results have concentrated in the last five year in two domains of Romance linguistics:
Microvariation: the syntax of Italian dialects
1. The first domain concerns Northern Italian dialects, for which I have contributed through publications (see publication list) to better describe and analyze various of their syntactic properties in a microvariation perspective. In my research I have combined a formal syntactic approach with a detailed investigation carried out through field work. While the phonology and morphology of these varieties have been traditionally studied for over a century, syntactic data are much less available to the scientific community through traditional channels like dictionaries, descriptive grammars and atlases. Therefore, I have collaborated with the linguists and engineers of the university of Padua to a big project on the syntax of Italian dialects: I am a member of the ASIt (Syntactic Atlas of Italy), a free online data base containing over 200 Italian dialects with a search engine, which can be consulted at the following website http://asit.maldura.unipd.it/
The project has also an online journal, and I am a member of the editorial board.

At the moment I am working on a monograph entitled “Field work for theoretical approaches”.

2. The other main line of research I have been following concerns the diachronic development of Italian varieties. I have worked over the last five year to the following DFG research projects:
A. „Quantification in Old Italian „ with Prof. Dr.Guido Mensching (Universität Göttingen).
B. „Microvariation of Partitive in Romance" with prof. Elisabeth Stark (University of Zurich) which is also part of an European network funded by the NWO (Research Council The Netherlands) headed by Petra Sleeman (Uiversity of Amsterdam)